My 14-yearold son, Bryce, is the 8th grade quarterback for Calvary Baptist Academy in Shreveport. Their 2019 season recently ended and it was a blast. When the season ended, they were undefeated. But then there was an unexpected twist of events.
About three weeks after our season ended, the coach from Ridgewood Middle School in Shreveport offered to play Calvary’s Middle School team. Our coaches agreed. I personally had a knot in my stomach when I heard the news.
Calvary Middle School had never played Ridgewood before, and our guys had heard that Ridgewood was a bigger school with bigger boys from a bigger selection of players. But our boys were facing the challenge confidently, and I was proud of them.
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